Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-21
FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
An Interesting Summary Of the
important Occurrences OF
the Week.
A Budget Of News Cleaned From Che
Latest Dispatches From Far
and Near.
ADVICES BY TELEGRAM.

The knights of Labor are waging vigor-
GUS war against Sunday work at Erie, Penn
sylvania. They have compelled the Anchor
Line Transportation company to stop business
Sundays by prosecuting their employees, and
they propose to serve the street-railway COM
panies in the same way These prosecutions
are being carried on under an act that was
passed in 1894.
Civil Service Commissioner Obcrly has
supplemented his letter to the Illinois Demo-
crat association by an order, the intention of
which is to prevent active politicians from be-
coming members of the boards of civil servic,
examiners The order is as follows
No person in the public service who is a
member of any political committee or any
ISOLATION organized for the purposes or en-
OF any political party. shall be eligible to
membership on any "board of examiners"
This order will stand as the action of The COM
mission unless, upon the return of
Commissioner LYMAN and Edgerton, they
shall both approve of the action of the COM
missioner Ill charge.
A train upon which Governor Foraker
was travelling to Z.nesville, Ohio, left the
track and came near going over a steep en-
bankmcnt. The governor was compelled to
crawl through window in order to get out
of the car in which he WAS riding.
William d. Rowell, prominent Mason of
Freeport, Illinois, died the other night.
Mrs jeremiah Gordon, aged ninety two
years, mo ther Of Conductor Jerry Gordon, OF
the Illinois Central railroad died at her home
in Galcna, Illinois, of old age. She settled in
Galena upward of thirty five years ago.
Several of the suppressed branches of
the League in the county Of Cork held meet
ings without the knowledge of the police
Several secret meetings We're held in the Nit
chelstown district At Ballygiblin q meeting
was held in open defiance Of law, and Father
Sexton in q speech dched the governm mt to
intimidate The people in an honest and open
combination.
For the first time since the revolution of
1883, the religious festivities connected with
the festival of ST. d ennis were suppressed in
Paris.
Christ AZ Scheck, a fam l. living near
Akron, Ohio, took his gun 10 shoot blue
jay, bus the weapon was accidentally dis
old baby tnat she held III her lap.
IN he last three years and a half q IL gro
port l. employee ~ d IVY Try manufacturin :
fl OF New Jrk city has stolen si5 700
worth of goods rom his employers.
An accid NJ occurred on the Chicago &
Atlantic iroad near Kouts, Id, in which
il is reported som fifteen people We're killed
The fast freight TRAN ia INTO the rear end of
the assenger telescoping Two cars. So far
fourteen boGi, have been taken from the
wreck. lhe bodies were burned beyond
recognition.
Tn following res luton WAS intr oGuced
in the Knigh o La or convention, at Min
neapoli +, b Quinn, OF N Y rk:
r. olvel, TIA his conve ion express sor-
row ttat the IN n II CActgo We're .oom d to
death, and tina II use every endenvor to Sc
cure commu alton of the sentenc. of death
passed upon them.
The conven ion was thrown into the widest
excitement, scores of del! & ties tryl at the
same time to OBJ ain the floor. Genelal Mas
ter Wo kman Powderly de,ile thai the res
! olu ion was u Of order Joseph Ev,ns, OF
Pittsturg, appe aled from the decision The
! appeal was 10 by Vote OF 151 to 50. Be
fore the appeal was taken Mr.. Powdcrly
called General Worthy For, man Grlfiiths, OF
Chicago, he chat and in shor; lut We
hement speech ca led upon he convention to
defeat the rcsolu ion He said no true Knight
Of Labor could BE- al anarc is. II appeal
ed to the delegates il impassoned words tc
not pervert the order to the passage OF any
such resolutions. 1t was the wa mes. speech
Powder y was CIV Il known make.